Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4397A1338125 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:05:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12483-03 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:05:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6050A1337EA6 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:05:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (static-71-179-240-8.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net [71.179.240.8]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MVawh-1PL5Eb1Fol-00YoSx; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4C930518.1090402@2ndquadrant.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:05:12 -0400 From: Greg Smith User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Marlowe CC: Anuj Pankaj , Tom Lane , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Devrim_G=DCND=DCZ?= , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: issue with Postgres uninstallation References: <2856B55CBB911B488D04E177EEF57D331137258C@ct-beexch-1-1.cybage.com> <4003.1284557720@sss.pgh.pa.us> <2856B55CBB911B488D04E177EEF57D33113FA6F5@ct-beexch-1-1.cybage.com> <12378.1284648364@sss.pgh.pa.us> <2856B55CBB911B488D04E177EEF57D33114736EB@ct-beexch-1-1.cybage.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:0ZCE+rb5flrbfVakwhgxo6qrg+056IKV2GBUMoLu7CO SdJiU8rNX1h0un5CXxmqtT7or/QRhoP4vfyMfC7vkTC4X11Nvq TxKJcXKKNGfUB3nZrqZDIchjonHax/1VUDD5YFjQa+HGyOLtCQ rZziOhcbaEF9V+VGs/9ZG5VGc6Ib8LNja5OWxxNDsNw9k+fb1R 8uiqkK5Llsy0Q1/kdqZKtJgXPhHcSRKALUayOZlMDs= X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201009/101 X-Sequence-Number: 35645 Scott Marlowe wrote: > You do not need the packages to uninstall them. do this: > > rpm -qa|grep -i postgres > > and see what packages are listed. > > Then > > rpm -e packagename1 packagename2 ... > > to remove them all. > Note that you may have issues removing the compat-postgresql-libs packages, as things other than the main database sofware you can have installed will rely on those. Here's what I do to get rid of all the rest of them in one easy command: rpm -qa | egrep "^postgresql" | xargs rpm -e -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us Author, "PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance" Pre-ordering at: https://www.packtpub.com/postgresql-9-0-high-performance/book